Geaux Saints! (2)

Geaux Saints!

Who would have ever thought after the visuals following hurricanes Katrina and Rita that there'd ever be celebration and football in the New Orleans Superdome?

Estimates say more than 75 percent of New Orleans still need to be rebuilt, and there's no need to forget that, but for one night, it's going to feel very empowering to a city and a region affected so much.

I'm watching NFL Primetime and got chills when I saw all the fans standing outside the doors waiting to get in.

Geaux Saints!

Blog Problems

Since the question has been asked (okay, well, only Izzy's asked it), I'll tell you why you can't comment on my blog.

And this is all my fault for not reading and going, "Ooh, shiny, beta, ooh upgrade."

Apparently, when I upgraded my blog/blog account to the new Blogger Beta, I failed to notice that beta users are unable to login and post comments on non-beta blogs and vice versa.

According to the Blogger Buzz, it's something they're working on, but it will take a while. For the meantime, you'll have to post as anonymous, but tell me who you are when you do so I can approve the comments.

Anyway, maybe this will give me a chance to sit and play with the Beta and find out what's so nice about it. Maybe I'll even give my thoughts.

Later.

Monday - 1,826 Days Later

So it's been five years.

Like probably every other person in this country, I can remember, almost to the minute, what happened in my day throughout the day's events.

I noticed CNN is going to re-broadcast their unedited coverage from that day on their Web site and I plan on recording it.

When I was in Washington, D.C. in May, I had a couple of days before the Chips Quinn program started, so I used my cheap rental car and drove around D.C. and Arlington. I remember driving again and again by the Pentagon when I would go to the Marine Corps Memorial and I kept thinking about what that day must have been like at that exact spot.

I also had that same feeling as I flew into and out of Reagan Int'l Airport.

This post is going to ramble a bit. Right before I decided to make this post, I started flipping through the channels and came on A&E's United 93. I'd seen it already. I remember downloading it and watching it on my laptop one day. I'd also gone to see United 93 the weekend it came out.

I read a story this week that some people were asking CBS to edit out the profanity from their documentary 9/11 (the one from two French filmmakers that had been following the lives of a NYFD company).

How censored are we allowing ourselves to become? Are we so worried that we might actually learn our history as it was documented that we're afraid of some cursing that might burn little Johnny's ears?

Forget for a moment that I'm a journalist... how stupid is this? I've read people saying that there's no need for the profanity and it needs to be edited out - and if I remember correctly, I think my local affiliate is going to be one of the stations that runs the edited version.

Guess what? When I saw that plane hit the second tower, I said, "What the fuck?"

I also sense a media overload will happen this weekend, especially since the anniversary is on a Monday (although it's not like it'd be any less for this particular event if it were Wednesday).

Speaking of media...here's a link to the front pages from that day sponsored by my good friends at the Newseum.

This post could ramble on and on and on, but I'm getting a little tired. I actually get to cover another game tomorrow with another byline for Saturday's paper, so that's nice.

As far as 11 Sept 2006 goes, do what you need to do to make it through the day. If the TV, radio, newspaper and online news get to you - turn it off.

This isn't to make light, but I just thought of something that, well, it made us chuckle in my old newsroom.

Last year, on September 11, there was a near-riot on the campus of Texas State between students and local/area law enforcement. I remember sitting at my desk talking to others in the newsroom about the coverage we were working on to cover the riot and we had a line that just popped into somebody's head. "The events of September 11..."

You can see why it made us chuckle/cringe.

Well, I'll be around.